08-12-2012, 06:25 PM
HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF
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It's not a theory, nor is it a truth. It is an observation. There maybe things "new under the sun," but I'm afraid to say, that, in and of itself, is a repeat in history. There will always be new things and improvements. The little "similarities" you mocked are in fact what the phrase is talking about.
What about the Great Depression in the 30s? America is on the verge of another one right now.
There are some example of the history repeat itself or not repeat:
• Oh, and your first two exclamations completely contradict themselves. Just thought I ought to warn you, for people making "mistakes" and "being so stupid" are, in fact, a repeat in history.
• Ahmen brother...better examples would be slavery, timeline goes as follows isrealites, Persians, gladiators roman, Scotland, African Americans, now the entire American society that is in service constuction or agriculture and food industry, just instead of whips they use money; just like we used to mine gold for them and go to war for them. Modern day society has developed a more appropiate easier to swallow system .
• Our Holly crusaides into the middle east, under reign of the perversion of whats holy, our constant bonbardments into the middle east for riches and religious items of great significance- to the recent war in Iraq and the foretold invasion of the land.
• Another major example would be Genocide of Spiritual people by Society; time line goes as follows, Roman Church back when Jesus walked and paul killed christians, early settlers killing Indians, Jews in halocaust, America in the next upcoming events, everyone look up REX84 and make people aware of it, and relate it to the hollocaust, see our cocky arrogance... All it takes for evil to prevail is good men to do nothin, who know what genocides were prevented by men of god like moses, Luke Skywalker, Denzeil Washinton in Eli, Neo in the Matrex, Superman, and Jesus for this day in age and who knows how many more.
Does history really repeat itself?
• I think that this is going to be subject to one's point of view. There is no definitive answer to the question. Even the most hard- nosed determinist who does believe that there is a repeating pattern to all history will concede that not everything is an exact replica of the past. There are nuanced differences in time and setting to make each historical event uniquely fit for its context.
• However, I think that there are aspects of historical narrative that repeat itself. This is where one can see the themes of history emerge. There are historical themes that repeat themselves and in doing so, patterns in historical dialectic emerge. Different thinkers see different themes emerge. This makes it so that historical patterns repeat.
• Most of the proponents of people who believe in history repeating itself follow the quote from Santayana of those who "cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." Yet, even he would say that human freedom and individual action do not reduce human beings to empty vessels of action. They have conscious choice and can make distinct actions in which history does not have to repeat itself. Although, it is interesting to note that individuals who act in this manner are probably acting like others before them, indicating that even in the mere act of resistance some level of repeating the past is evident. In the final analysis, if there is an answer to this question, it might lie with aspects of one side being valid, alongside aspects of another side being equally valid.
Article about the history repeat itself:
While Ahmedabad has relived a few episodes of a bygone past, it has not always lived the happy ones. One such unfortunate error of the past re-enacted in the present is the alignment of a bridge.
In 1962 when Nehru Bridge, the fourth bridge to be built across the Sabarmati, was being planned, its original and most sensible alignment was to be a straight line extension of what was then an important circulation artery, the Relief Road. As the name suggests, Relief Road was named so because it was created as a parallel and widened road to relieve congestion of the busy Richie road (now Gandhi road). Relief Road would have been a straight spine starting from the railway station and would have continued straight through Sardar Park to form the Nehru Bridge and eventually meet Ashram Road somewhere near Gandhigram Railway Station. This means Station to Station artery.
Apparently, this most logical path had a property of late Shri Chinubhai Baronet's family in its path. This would not find favour among the influential families and naturally, it created some amount of lobbying to ensure that Nehru Bridge's alignment got revised to save these properties and simply shifted few metres to the north. These few meters shift would have its irreconcilable effect on the subsequent generations of the city. The new location meant that the bridge originated from nowhere and landed nowhere. Totally misaligned, it ended up at the bottleneck, which is the nightmare of traffic planners. This continues to be the trickiest and unresolved puzzles, even after several decades. It has been the most chaotic and confusing junctions at the busy node of the road network. This has also relegated a city icon, Sidi Saiyed ni Jaali into a traffic island gheraoed by monstrous vehicles all through the day. Irony is that original property for which these manipulations were done got gifted to Home Guards but Ahmedabad was saddled with traffic chaos forever. Someone's temporary gain is many mores' lifetime loss.